ONLY GOD FORGIVES is an upcoming crime thriller film written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas. On Gosling and Refn’s follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2011 film “Drive,” the film is set in the Thai boxing underworld. The first footage was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Shot on location in Bangkok, the film follows Julian (Gosling), who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family’s drug smuggling operation, as he is forced by his mother Jenna (Scott Thomas) to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother’s recent death.